tlapalli (CST13)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the term tlapalli, which has various meanings, including red and paint, shows a pair of red shapes that look something like tulips, but these are probably paint pots. This red paint was used to paint a cloth (tilmatli) at the church, according to the companion text in Nahuatl.
Stephanie Wood
Red was one of the most popular colors for the early Nahuas, as evidenced in the color of their temples, for one thing. Note some examples of red objects in the glyphs below. For more on the Codex Sierra, see Kevin Terraciano’s study (2021).
Stephanie Wood
1550–1564
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tilmas, mantas, telas, colores, rojo, pintura
tlapal(li), red, paint, dye, color, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapalli
pintura
Stephanie Wood
Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 13, page dated 1554. Origin: Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, State of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano has published an outstanding study of this manuscript (Codex Sierra, 2021), and in his book he refers to alphabetic and “pictorial” writing, not hieroglyphic writing. We are still counting some of the imagery from this source as hieroglyphic writing, but we are also including examples of “iconography” where the images verge on European style illustrations or scenes showing activities. We have this iconography category so that such images can be fruitfully compared with hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphic writing was evolving as a result of the influence of European illustrations, and even alphabetic writing impacted it.
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The Biblioteca Digital Lafragua of the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua in Puebla, Mexico, publishes this Códice Sierra-Texupan, 1550–1564 (62pp., 30.7 x 21.8 cm.), referring to it as being in the “Public Domain.” This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the Biblioteca Digital Lafragua and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
